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Congratulations to FLIE Learning Technologist Matt Jarvis whose work was shortlisted for the Annual H5P Awards 2025 under the ‘Impressive use of Multimedia’ category FLIE worked with Library colleagues to produce guidance for BU students on the use of generative AI in their studies. The resulting interactive resource, designed in H5P, aims to provide… Read more » about FLIE shortlisted for the Annual H5P Awards
Deep Fake it ’til you Make it? Academic integrity in the age of synthetic media – Dr Mike Perkins and Dr Jasper Roe 10.00-11.00 4 April 2025 Part of the Academic Integrity online webinar series Feb/Mar 2025 Join us for a transformative session focused on integrity in education. Picture this: You’re grading a student’s video… Read more » about Academic integrity in the age of synthetic media – Academic integrity online webinar series
Do you struggle to balance the use of AI in teaching without compromising the depth of student learning? Are you concerned that increased reliance on technology might be making students less inclined to engage in deep, critical thinking? If these questions resonate with you, our upcoming webinar is designed to address these very challenges. Join… Read more » about Mentimeter interactive webinar 10th April 3pm
Dr. Anya Chapman, Principal Academic in Tourism Management, recently collaborated with FLIE to create an asynchronous video interview (AVI) assignment using the quiz tool in Brightspace. With AVIs increasingly used in recruitment, this assessment aimed to test students’ understanding while preparing them for real-world interviews. Lacking specialised AVI software, Rob Walter (BUBS Learning Technologist) developed… Read more » about Asynchronous Video Interview Assessments in Brightspace
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI – Dr Tricia Bertram Gallant and Dr David Rettinger 16.00-17.00 26 Mar 2025 Part of the Academic Integrity online webinar series Feb/Mar 2025 Join us for a transformative session focused on integrity in education. We will explore research insights into why students engage… Read more » about The Opposite of Cheating – Academic Integrity online webinar series
We’re continuing to share examples from our Student AI Literacy series of exercises, created by FLIE for you to use with your students to help develop their AI literacy. Each exercise is designed to be led within a classroom environment with students undertaking a guided hands-on activity, improving skills such as prompting and evaluating AI… Read more » about Student AI Literacy resources – AI as negotiating counterpart
We’re continuing to share examples from our Student AI Literacy series of exercises, created by FLIE for you to use with your students to help develop their AI literacy. Each exercise is designed to be led within a classroom environment with students undertaking a guided hands-on activity, improving skills such as prompting and evaluating AI… Read more » about Student AI literacy exercises – AI as prompt engineer
What can GenAI tell us about why students cheat? – Dr Thomas Lancaster 14.00-15.00 20 Mar 2025 Part of the Academic Integrity online webinar series Feb/Mar 2025 The problem of why students cheat is one of the most studied in academic integrity. Thomas will discuss how he has used GenAI to help to process existing… Read more » about What can GenAI tell us about why students cheat? -Academic Integrity online webinar series
Join us for the premier European conference on Team-based Learning here at BU! Registration for BU staff is free! To avoid paying a registration fee please enter the promo code ETBLC25BU, then click “apply” before selecting your ticket. Please select the appropriate ticket i.e. only select the TBLC member option if you are a TBLC member. If you are interested in becoming a TBLC member please feel free… Read more » about Join us for the premier European conference on Team-based Learning here at BU!
Future-proofing Academic Integrity: Human Rights and Dignity in a Postplagiarism Era – Prof Sarah Elaine Eaton 15.00-16.00 12 Mar 2025 Part of the Academic Integrity online webinar series Feb/Mar 2025 New technologies can send educators and policy makers into a tizzy about academic cheating. It happened with the Internet and it’s happening again with artificial… Read more » about Future-proofing Academic Integrity – Academic Integrity online webinar series
